Author: J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: 12:53:31 09/25/01
I wrote a little test program to compare the speed of 64 bit int and double counters. Assuming that the integer piplines are full, and the fp pipline is not(probably the case for most chess programs), double counters take ~1 cycle per increment, while 64 bit int counters take ~3 cycles per increment. This was done with MSVC6 on a Pentium II at 450MHz.
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